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. >> well the kurds will break loose and get with the kurds in iraq and try to create an independent. >> the kurds are not going to accept it. >> the turks won't accept an independent occurred stan in iraq. >> one reason romney was less bell koas is he is now getting security briefings. he understands how complicated these issues are. he was much more direct about the arms ending up in the wrong hands. >> romney concurred with barack obama in thinking assad must go. i'm attacking the proposition is that the best way? >> i would not like to see the u.s. propping up assad. that is ludicrous, john. >> before you jump too deeply into that pond. >> what is going to succeed him john? you have the muslim brotherhood there, al qaeda is on our side, jihaddists pouring in from all over the place. again if he doesn't go soon this thing is spreading into jordan and turkey. >>> you remember the five boys produced by the seniors in that family, five boys and he was one of them. he was studying dentistry in london. >> he has a brother maybe mort knows more about it, a ruthless character. >> married,
. >> well the kurds will break loose and get with the kurds in iraq and try to create an independent. >> the kurds are not going to accept it. >> the turks won't accept an independent occurred stan in iraq. >> one reason romney was less bell koas is he is now getting security briefings. he understands how complicated these issues are. he was much more direct about the arms ending up in the wrong hands. >> romney concurred with barack obama in thinking assad must...
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killed infrastructure destroyed by terror acts by just fighting in general it's not a country like iraq or i'll let me that has oil to rebuild itself if we ever see an end to this conflict who could possibly benefit from all this fighting obviously for both sides there it's a lose lose situation syria has some well but you're quite right it's not the amount which. will be sufficient to rebuild the whole country syria or the way whatever. can be said about the rule of assad family was a pretty decent economical and social way country in the arab world i visited damascus last february and. city produce a very good impression on me it was going to be rippin city was very open city open air city. very secular in style it is an islamic country but somehow the style of living was very modern and you could see women sitting. with husbands in a nice restaurant and. economically it was clear that was one of the points of attraction in this region so it's really a pity that a country that has been enjoying quite an important economic growth is being put into shambles and who will profit from the
killed infrastructure destroyed by terror acts by just fighting in general it's not a country like iraq or i'll let me that has oil to rebuild itself if we ever see an end to this conflict who could possibly benefit from all this fighting obviously for both sides there it's a lose lose situation syria has some well but you're quite right it's not the amount which. will be sufficient to rebuild the whole country syria or the way whatever. can be said about the rule of assad family was a pretty...
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duckworth is an iraq war veteran. >>> finally, a billionaire ceo tells his employees that come election day if president obama wins, you just might lose your job. part of a memo sent around by ceo david siegel, if any new taxes are levied on me or my company as our current president plans, i will have no choice but to reduce the size of this company. this means fewer jobs, less benefits and certainly less opportunity for everyone. so, when you make your decision to vote, ask yourself, which candidate understands the economics of business ownership and who doesn't? whose policies will endanger your job? his fear tactic isn't entirely new. this is similar to a form letter some other ceos sent around on john mccain's behalf. how did that work out? >>> up next, what happened in that deadly attack on our consulate in libya? republicans say the state department dropped the ball but democrats say republicans are playing politics with a tragedy. you're watching "hardball," a place for politics. >>> welcome back to "hardball." well, there was some politically charged moments today on capitol hil
duckworth is an iraq war veteran. >>> finally, a billionaire ceo tells his employees that come election day if president obama wins, you just might lose your job. part of a memo sent around by ceo david siegel, if any new taxes are levied on me or my company as our current president plans, i will have no choice but to reduce the size of this company. this means fewer jobs, less benefits and certainly less opportunity for everyone. so, when you make your decision to vote, ask yourself,...
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iraq and ours. that is the first lie. we look at katrina right down here on the gulf coast. we see the government going in wasting money exaggerating police executing people on bridges in new orleans. absolute overstretch. i would turn also to questioning do we trust c-span. has anybody looked at the board of directors of c-span? take the time to look at them. these are all c.e.o.'s of enormous powerful wealthy corporationless. c-span pretends to be egalitarian and democratic. it is no.ess. c-span pretends to be egalitarian and democratic. it is nss. c-span pretends to be egalitarian and democratic. it is no.. c-span pretends to be egalitarian and democratic. it is no. government.l of host: why do you say it is a tool of government? >> everybody says god bless c-span. i think of reverend wright who turned it around. it is a tool of the government it is so above the fray and ho y holy. they are operating with tax paid infrastructure that is used for telecommunications. we paid for this. host: i'm goi
iraq and ours. that is the first lie. we look at katrina right down here on the gulf coast. we see the government going in wasting money exaggerating police executing people on bridges in new orleans. absolute overstretch. i would turn also to questioning do we trust c-span. has anybody looked at the board of directors of c-span? take the time to look at them. these are all c.e.o.'s of enormous powerful wealthy corporationless. c-span pretends to be egalitarian and democratic. it is no.ess....
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i am an iraq veteran. i watched with interest the drawdown in iraq from very close -- the transition in new dawn and the end of that period. most recently, i have watched the boxes turn red in afghanistan. forgive me, i am a veteran in a battalion, i am a lieutenant -- we make slides, and commanders want to know, how do we make the boxes green, lieutenant? what i see in afghanistan, in the most recent reports, everything the army has said about the "progress" of our surge in afghanistan -- all of the boxes are red. my question is, if you are looking back to the iraq conflict, if that surge had gone as badly as it now appears this surge has gone in afghanistan, where would the political fallout be? because i am frustrated, not about the political debate, but how little discussion there is anywhere in the media about the fact that afghanistan, apparently, the surge there -- soldiers were sacrificed, the blood and treasure we put there, has all but been for naught. i am wondering in the political context what
i am an iraq veteran. i watched with interest the drawdown in iraq from very close -- the transition in new dawn and the end of that period. most recently, i have watched the boxes turn red in afghanistan. forgive me, i am a veteran in a battalion, i am a lieutenant -- we make slides, and commanders want to know, how do we make the boxes green, lieutenant? what i see in afghanistan, in the most recent reports, everything the army has said about the "progress" of our surge in...
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in favor of this so we really are pointing the finger at air to one told you in the ruling party in iraq as to the close a bit. the source of this latest flare up most countries rushed to blame assad's forces for a shell of its wednesday calling it an act of aggression do you think there is a chance that it was just a very tragic incident. well i think that given the fact that there is no real intelligence to the contrary we have to accept the syrian government at its word that they are taking responsibility in the sense of this was something that came from the syrian military but that it's quite likely that it was an accident the i would remind people also that the syrian government has issued a formal apology to turkey for the incident this is something that israel for example did not do in two thousand and ten when they killed ten turkish citizens on the gaza flotilla they refused to apologize to turkey whereas syria has already within forty eight hours issued a formal apology so that should demonstrate a very stark difference between those countries that the west supports and those c
in favor of this so we really are pointing the finger at air to one told you in the ruling party in iraq as to the close a bit. the source of this latest flare up most countries rushed to blame assad's forces for a shell of its wednesday calling it an act of aggression do you think there is a chance that it was just a very tragic incident. well i think that given the fact that there is no real intelligence to the contrary we have to accept the syrian government at its word that they are taking...
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obama angry and describing him as having an accent. it's not subtle but i'm sure they think it's great politics. so tonight has been an unsettled big night. tomorrow night is going to make tomorrow look like a traffic camera on a desert highway. i'll be here in new york. chris matthews will be in denver.
obama angry and describing him as having an accent. it's not subtle but i'm sure they think it's great politics. so tonight has been an unsettled big night. tomorrow night is going to make tomorrow look like a traffic camera on a desert highway. i'll be here in new york. chris matthews will be in denver.
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president bush went into iraq when there was no need to go into iraq, even though saddam hussein was a dictator and an evil man. >> they can for the call. next, cynthia, from georgia. >> i am calling to ask mitt romney two questions. one question is he thinks he could be such a good foreign policy person, why has he never taken an interest in abroad before? the second question i would ask him would be, what about his son? why have none of them stood up and fought for this country? the things i cannot understand is you cannot be a person that has these four policies and love america so hard and kept your family so insulated. i would like him to address why he has insulated them from everything, and all but sudden he thinks he can come on the world stage and fool everybody that he really is doing this for america. >> ok. what would you ask the candidates? sam from rhode island. >> i would like to say about mitt, i think he has a bunch of things going for him as it pertains to the world stage. we talk about other countries, all these places, and i think that he has not articulate the wh
president bush went into iraq when there was no need to go into iraq, even though saddam hussein was a dictator and an evil man. >> they can for the call. next, cynthia, from georgia. >> i am calling to ask mitt romney two questions. one question is he thinks he could be such a good foreign policy person, why has he never taken an interest in abroad before? the second question i would ask him would be, what about his son? why have none of them stood up and fought for this country?...
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they did it as an emergency so this is just the base defense budget. this just shows how the base defense budget went up after 9/11, not including that emergency spending on iraq and afghanistan. now here's the amazing thing. watch this. so this is where our spending is now. that's what the blue line means. if we were to let our spending drop like we did after the end of the cold war, our spending would look like this. now you know the sequester that you've been hearing about with the draconian defense cuts, this is what our spending on the military would be like with the sequester. that's the purple line there. president obama's plan, what the pentagon and president obama have agreed should happen and what their plan is if president obama gets a second term is this line. military spending to have go like that. the third one there in the stack. essentially setting the spending levels we have got now as a new normal, even though he keeps spending going slightly up. people say there's no difference between the candidates. there's no real difference, but
they did it as an emergency so this is just the base defense budget. this just shows how the base defense budget went up after 9/11, not including that emergency spending on iraq and afghanistan. now here's the amazing thing. watch this. so this is where our spending is now. that's what the blue line means. if we were to let our spending drop like we did after the end of the cold war, our spending would look like this. now you know the sequester that you've been hearing about with the draconian...
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in recent years we have had wars going on in iraq and afghanistan. do we now want another one with a far more powerful, more modern islamic country? the implication for romney's tough talk in iran is we can commit an act of out and out war against that country without using the ward wor. we attack their nuclear sites, they say urngcle, and that's the end of it. that's where people like general kour tis le may said 50 years ago during the cuban missile crisis. just knock out the soviet missiles in cuba. they won't do nothing. nikita khrushchev had plans to hit new york and said to. quote, i knew the united states could knock out some of our missiles even if only one or two big ones were left, we could still hit new york. an awful lot of people would have been wiped out. consequences. understand the consequences. that's what foreign policy is about. war isn't a policy. we have no idea what the mullahs plan to do if we attack. they could unleash hezbollah and it's tens of thousands of rockets on israel, unlash hamas in gaza forcing israel to invade kill
in recent years we have had wars going on in iraq and afghanistan. do we now want another one with a far more powerful, more modern islamic country? the implication for romney's tough talk in iran is we can commit an act of out and out war against that country without using the ward wor. we attack their nuclear sites, they say urngcle, and that's the end of it. that's where people like general kour tis le may said 50 years ago during the cuban missile crisis. just knock out the soviet missiles...
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>> look, you know, that's an easy -- that's a really easy spit ball to hurl. you left iraq. everyone knows that that was an incredibly long drown out complicated negotiation in which in the end the parties inside iraq failed to come to an agreement on effect asking if united states to stay in iraq and giving the americans the legal cover they needed. i wish we had found a way to keep a residual force there, to bolster to regime there and help them push back on their enemies. but i -- and some might say obama didn't try hard enough. i wasn't privy to the negotiations. i thought they tried hard over months. it was very clear that the iraqis-- because of their own internal politics-- were having a very hard time getting their act together and inviting us to stay which is what they had to do in tend. >> rose: what would he do different than obama on iran? >> well, you know it's hard to tell. he says "i would tighten the sanctions." well, i don't know, the last time i picked up the "new york times" it said iran's currency fell almost 50% in the last month so the sanctions obama h
>> look, you know, that's an easy -- that's a really easy spit ball to hurl. you left iraq. everyone knows that that was an incredibly long drown out complicated negotiation in which in the end the parties inside iraq failed to come to an agreement on effect asking if united states to stay in iraq and giving the americans the legal cover they needed. i wish we had found a way to keep a residual force there, to bolster to regime there and help them push back on their enemies. but i -- and...
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the green zone in iraq was shelled routinely. >> no one is thinking about libya. but in the month before the election to talk openly about what happen to ambassador stevens, reminding people, there is still no government in libya, still no security in libya, al qaeda entities, al qaeda affiliated entities are moving freely in libya, in fact, they are the most armed people in the country, and it raises the question, what did this war accomplish? and i think most people. most people view a show like this, a very news savvy audience don't know isn't a government in libya. >> that's not entirely true, david. there were elections, muslim fundamentalists lost badly. a moderate liberal pro western government was nominated. the institutions of government are not very strong in libya, but to categorize it as there being no government misses a very important election that took place and many conservatives lauded it because it brought to power moderate pro western liberals. >> what did we get? that's the debate the administration doesn't want to have this month and that's th
the green zone in iraq was shelled routinely. >> no one is thinking about libya. but in the month before the election to talk openly about what happen to ambassador stevens, reminding people, there is still no government in libya, still no security in libya, al qaeda entities, al qaeda affiliated entities are moving freely in libya, in fact, they are the most armed people in the country, and it raises the question, what did this war accomplish? and i think most people. most people view a...
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obama angry and describing him as having an accent. it's not subtle but i'm sure they think it's great politics. so tonight has been an unsettled
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. >> is this an opportunity where that change may come? >> yeah, because, you know, again, the leadership wants to talk tough. they'll sound defiant until the very end but, you know, in the late 1980s when iran was fighting iraq, things got really desperate at home and the iranian leadership had to do what they call swallow the poison pill and make a deal with saddam hussein and end the war. there's hope they'll have to do the same thing. definitely the situation is getting desperate enough. >> it also seems like israel has kind of backed off. are they watching to see what happens now inside of iran too? >> yes. a whole new tone from israel this week. all this talk we saw a few weeks ago by red lines. it's been replaced by let's do more sanctions. this seems to be working. let's continue u the pressure on iran. let's continue what seems to be a working policy. we'll see what happens. >> we will see. we'll have you back and talk about it. many thanks. >> thank you. >> that's a wrap of this hour with wooek ends wi"weekends wit" straight ahea
. >> is this an opportunity where that change may come? >> yeah, because, you know, again, the leadership wants to talk tough. they'll sound defiant until the very end but, you know, in the late 1980s when iran was fighting iraq, things got really desperate at home and the iranian leadership had to do what they call swallow the poison pill and make a deal with saddam hussein and end the war. there's hope they'll have to do the same thing. definitely the situation is getting...
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our hearts and minds go to them. >> reporter: on iraq and also on the timetable for withdrawing from afghanistan, romney also noticeably softened his position. clearly having decided that undecided voters, those swing voters are more likely to choose a moderate republican than a hawk. >> andrea mitchell part of our post debate coverage tonight. andrea, thanks. >>> we have asked both campaigns to ride along in these final days. and starting tomorrow night, we'll have exclusive behind the scenes access with president obama as he tries to make his closing argument to the american people. that's beginning tomorrow night here on nightly news, and on "rock center" on thursday. >>> dramatic developments today in the ongoing meningitis outbreak caused by those tainted steroid shots for back pain. more than 300 people are now confirmed sick. the state of massachusetts is taking action against the company at the center of it all. our senior investigative correspondent lisa myers has an update for us on this tonight. lisa, good evening. >> good evening, brian. today massachusetts officials reve
our hearts and minds go to them. >> reporter: on iraq and also on the timetable for withdrawing from afghanistan, romney also noticeably softened his position. clearly having decided that undecided voters, those swing voters are more likely to choose a moderate republican than a hawk. >> andrea mitchell part of our post debate coverage tonight. andrea, thanks. >>> we have asked both campaigns to ride along in these final days. and starting tomorrow night, we'll have...
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and in iraq and afghanistan, do we now want another war and a more islamic country. the implication is that we can commit an all out act of war for actually using the word war. we can attack the nuclear sites and they say uncle and that's the end of it. they won't do anything and if only one or two big ones were left, we could still hit new york, an awful lot of people would be wiped out. consequences, understanding the consequences. that's what foreign policy is all about. war is not a policy. it's a declaration of failure. we have no idea what they plan to do and unleash on gaza, forcing others to knockout the rocket sites in both lands killing any number of civilians. and where would we be then? mr. romney's performance in foreign affairs from clumsy trip to europe where he managed to insult our hosts from the shoot first and ask questions second behavior towards the tragedy in libya and i'm joined by martin bashir and robert gibbs. we have a premier guest. a premier guest. a man who has a wide range of renaissance thinking going for him and let me ask you this ab
and in iraq and afghanistan, do we now want another war and a more islamic country. the implication is that we can commit an all out act of war for actually using the word war. we can attack the nuclear sites and they say uncle and that's the end of it. they won't do anything and if only one or two big ones were left, we could still hit new york, an awful lot of people would be wiped out. consequences, understanding the consequences. that's what foreign policy is all about. war is not a policy....